EIGHTY DIFFERENT ARTISTS

Printed at Basil Hall Editions, Darwin in 2004
Yothu Yindi Foundation

Scoop Traveller: Northern Territory, edition 6, June-December 2008, p.36 illus.

The four sheets are under glass in a timber frame. The sheets have been adhered lossley and do not sit flat under the glass, it is recommended that the work be reframed.
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This work is sold with a brochure entitled Garma: A Celebration of Yolngu Culture and another booklet entitled The 2003 Garma Panel that reads in part: "The Garma Festival, held annually at Gulkula in north east Arnhem Land, is Australia's most significant indigenous festival.

"Through festival events and an academic forum, the Yolngu people celebrate and share their rich cultural inheritance with the world.

"'Dhuni: Arts and Culture', the 2003 Garma Forum, provided the impetus for the Garma Panel Collaborative Art Project.

"On the red earth of Gulkula, under blue skies and bough shelters, indigenous artists from all over Australia seized this rare opportunity to make art together in the form of a large multi-plate etching: the 2003 Garma Panel...

"The Yothu Yindi Foundation is a not-forprofit organisation that was established in 1990 by elders from five of the Yolngu clans: the Gumatj, Rirratjingu, Djapu, Galpu and Wangurri clans of north east Arnhem Land in Australia. The Garma Festival is the centrepiece of the Foundation's vision. One of the key objectives of Garma is to support and further the maintenance, development, teaching and enterprise potential of Yolngu cultural life."